“It’d been years of toiling quietly in my office, and then all of a sudden it was like, ‘Hey, you’ve got this offer.’” “It was all very slow, then it was all very fast,” Stewart said. Stewart eventually parted ways with her first agent and began querying again, this time with “Scars Like Wings.” Six months later, Stewart found new representation in Brianne Johnson, who sold “Scars Like Wings” in three days. That manuscript never sold to publishers. So when she decided to start writing novels eight years ago, she first wrote a science fiction story that she claimed was “really terrible” - but she did manage to pick up a literary agent for it. But Piper is facing demons of her own, and Ava will have to decide if she will retreat back behind her scars or let the people who love her help her soar.Īt first, Stewart was too intimidated to write a story about a burn survivor, especially since she wasn’t a burn survivor herself. She does eventually make friends with a fellow burn survivor, Piper, and joins the drama club. 1 and tells the story of teenage Ava Lee, who loses her parents and cousin in a house fire.Īva’s large, visible scars make her anything but hopeful when her doctor and aunt encourage her to go back to high school and reintegrate with society. “ Scars Like Wings” (Delacorte Press, 379 pages, ages 12 and up) comes out Oct. And that’s what inspired Stewart to write her debut novel, a story that could give hope through tragedy.
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